From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 13:31:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045BE37BF75 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RaymundoVega@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.252.61]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000613203130.SCPV28251.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:31:30 -0700 Message-ID: <39469A22.7FD2E1B9@home.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:31:30 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Williams Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jahanur R Subedar Subject: Re: network setup References: <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com> <8224.000613@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Williams wrote: > > I have a gateway (not the brand) computer with three (3) network > cards in it. One of these cards goes to the LAN. The OTHER TWO go to > DIFFERENT ISPs. My question is: > > How do I use one ISP-link OR THE OTHER depending on which > has the "best" (for some definition of best ... shortest, > fastest, least packet loss...) route or capability to carry > the packets? > > --Ben Williams OK, then to do that you need the *all* the routes on the Internet. How much do you know about routing protocols?? i think you have to use BGP but to use it you need an Autonomous System Number (ASN) from ARIN. After you get it you need to talk to your ISPs to set up the protocol. raymundo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message